Piano Funnies for August 12, 2003

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 17:05 08/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>At 12:46 PM -0500 8/13/03, Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:
>>... My addlepated self remembers a square in the surf,
>
>And that it was.
>
>>and a distinctly _non_ square sound when it was played.  I suppose I'm 
>>mis-remembering that, too.  ;-{
>
>You're not.
>
>Keith McGavern


Re: the movie "The Piano"

Rented the video tonight, fast forwarded through the entire thing.

The only piano fully shown is a Broadwood square (tight shot showing the 
nameboard near the beginning).  I'm not an expert, but it looks to be about 
an 1830's vintage.  It somehow managed to sit in the surf for a few days 
without any case/veneer damage OR sinking into the sand - it was on it's 
feet.  It looked like a packing crate with piano legs.

The piano was not thrown overboard as in the previously posted picture, 
rather it fell out of a large Maori canoe.  The last scene in the movie is 
of it resting on the bottom.

I didn't read all the credits, so I don't know if there is a disclaimer 
stating that no pianos were harmed in the making of the movie...



Conrad Hoffsommer

Early to rise: early to bed;
Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.